Cultural Lesson Plans for Teachers about the ... - Brown University

ABOUT THESE MATERIALS
Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology welcomes you to our program,
Culture Connect:
Experience the cultures of the world!
The Haffenreffer
Museum of Anthropology
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About These Materials
The Haffenreffer Museum has developed these materials to provide you and your students
with the opportunity to begin their exploration of world cultures. This packet expands on
the themes that are covered during the Culture Connect Culture CaraVan outreach
program, but activites in this packet can also be used independently of a Museum program.
The first section introduces the question: “What is culture?”, the section that follows introduces
three cultures, as well as three types of objects that those cultures made in the past
and continue to make today. At the end of each section, we suggest activities for you and
your students to do in the classroom. If your students are participating in our Culture Connect
CaraVan program, these activites will help prepare your class for our visit. The final lesson
plan proves a springbaord into the further exploration of other cultures. If your students are
participating in the Culture Connect program, this section can be used to reinforce what your
students learned during the program. You can adapt the information and activities provided
in this packet to the appropriate learning levels of your students. We also suggest some
websites and books that you and your students can use in your classroom to learn about culture
in general, as well the three cultures and objects described in this packet.
Vocabulary words are in bold and are listed after each section.
Learning Objectives
1. To expose students to the life ways of a diversity of cultures around
the world.
2.
To help students understand that all people need the same basic
things and use what they have available in their environment to
obtain those things.
3.
To teach students to respect cultural differences.
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